Let Them Swim in Deep Water

Over at Democracy in America, another liberal speaks up for part of the liberty agenda:

My colleague noted the other day the discussion Matthew Yglesias
has been having with his readers over whether liberals and libertarians
can agree on some regulations they both hate. So, here's a regulation I
hate: you're not allowed to swim across the lake anymore in
Massachusetts state parks. You have to stay inside the dinky little
waist-deep swimming areas, with their bobbing lines of white buoys.
There you are, under a deep blue New England summer sky, the lake laid
out like a mirror in front of you and the rocks on the far shore
gleaming under a bristling comb of red pine; you plunge in, strike out
across the water, and tweet! A parks official blows his whistle and
shouts after you. "Sir! Sir! Get back inside the swimming area!" What is
this, summer camp? Henry David Thoreau never had to put up with this.
It offends the dignity of man and nature. You want to shout, with Andy Samberg: "I'm an adult!"

Indeed. I feel the same way about Orange County's recent prohibition against climbing on the rocks at the beach.

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